Widely regarded as Sorrentinos finest achievement Mulligan Stewamp160takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination As avantgarde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a amp34new wave murder mysteryamp34 his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his workinprogress As a result his narrative the very book we are reading turns into a literary amp34stewamp34 an uproariously funny melange of journal entries erotic poetry parodies of all kinds love letters interviews and listsas Hugh Kenner in amp34Harpersamp34 wrote amp34for another such virtuoso of the List youd have to resurrect Joyceamp34 Soon Lamonts characters on loan from F Scott Fitzgerald Flann OBrien James Joyce and Dashiell Hammet take on lives of their own completely sabotaging his narrative Sorrentino has vastly extended the possibilities of what a novel can be in this extraordinary work which both parodies and pays homage to the art of fiction
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